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84 THE ARTIST's ASSISTANT,
obje£ts which he judges moft proper to exprefs and
adorn it. And by the difpofition, he mult place
them in a manner, the molt advantageous to draw
a grand effe£t from them, and to pleale the eve in
fhewing beautiful parts.
For the draught.—A painter muft do it correctly,
with a good tafte, well diverfified, fometimes heroic,
and fometimes rural, according to the character ot
the figures he wants to introduce.
The attitudes are to be natural, expreffive, va-
ried in their actions, and contrafted in their mem-
bers : They ought to be fimple or noble, animated
or moderated according to the fubject of the picture,
and the difcretion of the painter.
Attitude, in painting, is the pofture or gefture
of a figure, or the difpofition of its parts, by which
we difcover the action it is engaged in, and the very
fentiment fuppofed to be in the mind of the perfon
reprefented.
The expreffions muft be juft to the fubject; the
principal figures having noble and fublime ones,
and keeping a medium between the exaggerated and
infipid.
Expreffion in painting, denotes a natural and
lively reprefentation of the fubject. or of the feve-
ral objefts intended to be fhewn. The term expref-
fion is ordinarily confounded with that of paflion ;
but they differ in this, that expreffion is a general
term, implying a reprefentation of an object, agree-
able to its nature and character, and the ufe or
office it is to have in the work ; whereas paflion
in painting denotes a motion in the body, accom-
panied with certain difpofitions. or airs in the face,
which mark an agitation in the foul ; fo that every
paflion,
obje£ts which he judges moft proper to exprefs and
adorn it. And by the difpofition, he mult place
them in a manner, the molt advantageous to draw
a grand effe£t from them, and to pleale the eve in
fhewing beautiful parts.
For the draught.—A painter muft do it correctly,
with a good tafte, well diverfified, fometimes heroic,
and fometimes rural, according to the character ot
the figures he wants to introduce.
The attitudes are to be natural, expreffive, va-
ried in their actions, and contrafted in their mem-
bers : They ought to be fimple or noble, animated
or moderated according to the fubject of the picture,
and the difcretion of the painter.
Attitude, in painting, is the pofture or gefture
of a figure, or the difpofition of its parts, by which
we difcover the action it is engaged in, and the very
fentiment fuppofed to be in the mind of the perfon
reprefented.
The expreffions muft be juft to the fubject; the
principal figures having noble and fublime ones,
and keeping a medium between the exaggerated and
infipid.
Expreffion in painting, denotes a natural and
lively reprefentation of the fubject. or of the feve-
ral objefts intended to be fhewn. The term expref-
fion is ordinarily confounded with that of paflion ;
but they differ in this, that expreffion is a general
term, implying a reprefentation of an object, agree-
able to its nature and character, and the ufe or
office it is to have in the work ; whereas paflion
in painting denotes a motion in the body, accom-
panied with certain difpofitions. or airs in the face,
which mark an agitation in the foul ; fo that every
paflion,